Round 1 I get aConvergence of Cyrissplayer namedKiernanplayingLucantand Axis. I was pretty sure I was going to getLucantso I droppedKaelyssa. With the 2 Units of Strike force I assumed I could jam out the zones. I was wrong. We both position and jockey. I go on an assassination run bringLucantto 10hp clear my zone and score 1cp. He repairsLucant(now namedLouCunt) to mostly full, hisAssimilatorcomes in and kills myManticorestoppingthe score. He runs a diffuser into some Strike Force. Next turn my Hydra kills theAssimilatoropening my half of the table. I run arcanistsinto his zone and go to 2 Control Points. His next turn he clears his zone, runsLucantin, can’t stop my zone he dominates for 1, I dominate for 1 bringing the score to 3-1. At the start of my turnNarnandMageHunter Assassin drop his Objective giving my my fourth Control Point and I dominate my zone to make it 5-2.

Round 2 –Garrythvs Grissel2 – Close Quarters

Round 2 I get paired against Derek Anderson playingTrollbloods. He has Grissel2 and Runes of War. I assume Runes isn’t an option due to the amount of spell hate my lists have. I dropGarryth due to Grievous Wounds and 5MHAvs. his Warders. Derek drops Grissel. I win the roll to go first, Garrythcharges up the table and everyone Runs. Advanced DeployedGarrythin thekillboxis super scary. Derek runs up and feats with Grissel. GarrythDeath Sentences the Long Riders and moves back towards my Flag and shoots a Long Rider triggering HyperAggressive(whoops). MageHunter Infiltrators go in and with some crazy dice kill 3 Long Riders and then forget to reform (I’m bad and should feel bad). One of the non AD units of Strike Force Shoot the Fell Caller pulling him into charge range of an Assassin (brilliant). Assassin drops the Fell Caller. The other Assassins tickle the Warders and try to kill a few, while the advance deployed Strike Force try to gun down thekrielstone and the second non-AD unit jams the warders up nearDereksflag. I runNaylto within 8″ of Grissel and pass turn. Derek brings his Storm Troll to killNaylmiss-reading the card. Nayldies and Grissel,Krielstone, and Storm Troll lose all their Fury,Animi, and Spells. Derek catches some crap dice when trying to retaliate and runsHortholover to my Flag to stop me from scoring. My turn I kill HortholwithGarrythwhile basing my flag. Used his 2 Melee attacks and forgotHortholwas a Dragoon so Had to gallows kill or I used an Assassin I don’t remember. MHIpush into theKriel stone after the Strike Force with Commander keep shooting it. MageHunter Assassins start whiffing on Warders and I get a bit nervous but go up to 1 Control Point. Derekpiecestogether an assassination run ofGarrythhe needs to free up his last Long Rider from the Infiltrators. Unfortunately one Infiltrator ate his Wheaties that morning and stop the charge. The Long Rider runs to my flag, Derek tries to Block LOS to Grissel with some Warders. My turn starts, One unit of Strike Force escortingGarrythCMAthe Long Rider and come up short. The Assassin back their gets in and kills the Long Rider off. The Strike Force with Commander kill the 2 lastKrielstonemembers after they tough two Ghost Sniper shots. Apsisbeat backs a warder to try and clear the last twoMageHunter Infiltrators and Eiryss3. Garrythmoves off the flag and shoots Grissel twice doing 11ish damage to her Derek has 1 fury chooses not to transfer. MHIand Eiryss3 charge Grissel, 1 Infiltrator makes it, another dies to a free strike and Eiryss3 doesn’t get hit my the free strike. Eiryssconnects, drops the fury and puts Grissel in the dirt. Tough check made. Eirysstakes her second swing, another Tough check make. MHIputsgrisseldown again, and another Tough Check. I start sweating nuts at this point as this is all I have left. MHIsecondary kills Grissel, no Tough check made. Well fought game vs. Derek took a long time but was super fun.

Round 3 –KaelyssavaeHaley– Destruction

Round 3 final round, I get paired against the one, the only,Trevviethe Great. Destruction is the scenario he haseHaleyand Caine2 withStormwall. I pickKaelyssaon the off chance he drops Stormwallto try and covering fire the zone. He pickseHaley(ughhhhh). He wins the roll first I pick the side with the wall since it helps me verses his GunMages. He runs Thorn up gets some Time bombs off, kills two Strike Force dudes anddebuffsanother. Everything thing else runs forward. I run my Chimera, put backlash on Thorn and start lighting him up. I also pop feat. It only takes six Strike Force to drop Thorn (damn my dice) and obviously I don’t kill Haley. I shoot up as much as I can and try to spread out to avoid the inevitable feat. I put down covering fire between and obstacle and Trevvie’sobjective forcing him around to the flank and out of the zone. Trevviefeats back, kills a ton of stuff, leaves maybe seven total Strike Force alive from both units combined and engages my Chimera. He also heals Haley for two. On my turn we do the feat, Chimera throws aForgeguardintoGormanfails to killGorman. MageHunter Strike Force kill a coupleforgeguard, one lone Strike Force guytry’sto hit natty 10s to get Haley and fails. One Ghost Sniper kills aForgeguardand the other was out of feat. My two Assassins are also out of feat andNarnshoots aStomguardto clear a charge lane. One Assassin blows upTrevvie’sobjective, the other charges Alexia1, and kills the risen and brings her to 1 HP. The last Ghost Sniper moves up takes a shot, rolls a natty 8 and kills Alexia. TheManticoreputs covering fire in front of my Objective. I score 1 Control Point and pass turn. TrevviebringsRagmanto Darkshroud,Forgeguardwreck my Chimera, oneForgeguardgets the to Objective and two others die to covering fire. He does seven damage to my objective and kills the Assassins andNarn. Trevvie’sEiryss2 comes up and disrupts my Hydra, and he passes turn. Haley is hiding behind an Obstruction so remember that loneMageHunter Strike Force guy, ya, well he aims and hits Haley for two points of damage. The other unit ofMageHunter Strike force move around and aim and go in on Haley doing another three points of damage bringing her down to six hp. Kaelyssahas a full stack comes up boosts to hit Haley and I forget to Phantom Hunter myself so I miss. I cast phantom hunter, buy/boost and hit stealing a focus. I boost damage dice off seven and I roll the 13 to kill Haley for the win.

Two caster kills and a scenario win, Two Kill Box scenarios against very good opponents when I had very assassination oriented lists was fortunate. My opponents were great and Temple Games is always a good time.